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Medford and Jackson County
History from the file of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 19, 1950 (Wednesday)
"Hawthorne park" is name
given to new city pary, city
council decides last night.
Ashland The city council
ordered all sawmills within
the city limits to install cyclo
nic type combustion aids in
their burners.
20 YEARS AGO
April 19. 1940 (Friday)
A masked gunman held up
a clerk in the Riverside Mar
ket, 313 North Riverside ave.,
last night and escaped with an
undisclosed amount of cash
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Three
New York toughs were each
sentenced to 50 years in pri
son, for the hold-up and mur
der of an aged woman, that
netted them .34 cents. In case
you care, their crime will
yield .068 cents per year while
being cooped."
30 YEARS AGO
April 19, 1930 (Saturday)
Groceteria No. 2 opens with
a rush of customers.
Ten more local autoists pur
chase license plates as sheriff
threatens to arrest drivers
without current plates.
40 YEARS AGO
April 19, 1920 (Monday)
Railroad switchmen's strike
causes shortage of; gasoline
fuel and gas sells here for 45
cents per gallon.
Trigonia oil well now down
200 feet. , .
50 YEARS AGO
April 19, 1910 (Tuesday)
A Table Rock woman was
killed yesterdey when she
leaped from a runaway horse
and carriage and hit a rock.
An infant she held in her arms
was not hurt.
The Rogue River Fish Pro
tective association starts cam
paign to prohibit commercial
fishing in Rogue river and its
tributaries.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or tan correct Is superior
seven or eight Is excellent; live oi
ill is good.
1. What Hebrew prophetess
helped free the Israelites from
the Canaanites, and celebrated
the victory In a famous song
Of triumph?
2. In the lalo 1850's, North.
em Democrats and Northern
Whigs joined with the Free
Soilers and abolitionists to
establish what political party?
3. Was Argentina once a co
. lonial possession of Portugal,
Spain, or Italy?
4. In England, a streetcar Is
t ?
5. How many bananas are
required to make a half pint
of banana oil? '
8. In what sort of container
did Whlttakor Chambers se
crete microfilms of govern
ment documents on his farm
in Maryland?
f. ill ruwiiiBi uvea inu
rower face the prow, or the
tern, of the boat?
8 What Is the N.S.S. Nauti
lus?
0. Is Syria in Europe, Afri
ca, or Asia minor?
10. Who was the tallest
President?
Answem Deborah, 1, Re-
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NATIONAL E0ITORIAI
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?ubllcan Party. 3. Spain. 4.
rem. 5. None, (banana ell Is
myl acetate.) 8. A hollows)
pumpkin. 1. Stern. 8, The
Mavy's first atomic-powered
tub. . Asia Minor. 10. Abrl
ham Lincoln) (6'4").
Close-To-Home Government
A pattern of city development was revealed
in comments of elected officials of Jackson coun
ty communities when
Amoner the smaller
foremost and universal. They were obtaining
adequate supplies of good, clean municipal wa
ter, and adequate means of disposing of sewage,
Tn trie smaller pnmmunities. nracticallv every
thing takes a back seat
lems although that doesn t mean tney are tne
only problems that mayors and city councils have.
e a a e e
ASA CITY grows, the water and sewage dis
"posal problems stay with it, but here it is
mostly a case of expanding an existing service,
and keeping up with the demand.
But other problems come to the forefront of
the larger communities demands for parks
( which usually are a project of a service club in
the smallest towns), for swimming pools, for hos
pital services, for library service, for more street
paving, for more and better ponce ana lire pro
tection, for community planning, for adequate
municipal buildings, for airports, for street trees,
and so on and so on.
Small towns struggle to solve a few major
problems with limited resources; larger towns
straggle to solve a multiplicity of demands with
more adequate, but still limited, resources.
a
I ISTENING to the mayors and councilmen of
" Jackson county s cities, one is impressed more
than ever with the amount of voluntary work
which features this level of government.
None . of these men receive money for the
countless hours of time they put in serving their
communities and neighbors. The time is not con
fined wholly to attending meetings, either, for
an effective public servant is, at least in part,
a "public relations" man for his city, and en
deavors also to learn the
citizens.
In addition to spending the time necessary
to do a job, an office-holder in a small com
munity (and large ones too, for that matter) lays
himself wide open for criticism Irom constituents
who disagree with what he has done, or how he
is doing it.
DUT that is all part of life in America.
One of the chief things which sets America
anarr. from manv other
fact that anyone, particularly in a small town,
can participate in his own government.
This can be done in large cities, but it is tar
easier to do when your mayor or councilman
lives "next door," or at most down the street a bit.
It is here that Americans are closer to their
trovernment than anywhere else, where council
meetings can be, in truth,
1
wnere pracucany everyone can una out wnao me
problems are.
It's too bad that more people don't participate
personally in municipal government. But those
who do are a credit to
cities. E.A.
Who Is
When Beverly Aadland was first publicized
as the "protege" of the late Errol Flynn, we idly
wondered what her mother could be like.
Now we know. And now we no longer wonder
how come a 17-year-old
and board of the swashbuckling actor.
Mrs. Adland is coming to trial on a charge
of contributing to the delinquency of her minor
dauerhter. Whether or not she is convicted of the
technical crime, she is guilty of the general
charge. Of that there can be little doubt.
SOMETIMES in a "preachy" mood we have de
plored the breakdown in America's moral
fiber, and have reiterated that this begins in the
home. When the home breaks down, what cnance
do the youngsters have to be raised up in recti
tude? No when a child has the proper home en
vironment, the proper guidance, the love and
understanding and discipline which each of us
needs when young, there is little that can cause
him to go wrong.
Television, bad comic books, pornographic
literature, amoral motion pictures none of these
can penetrate the essential armor of his training.
e e e .
DUT when' a child lacks that protective armor,
he is vulnerable to the wiles and temptations
of the world. He lacks the strength of family
unity and love, which last through life.
And the end product, too often, is a degener
ate and delinquent child like Beverly Aadland.
Maybe Florence Adland contributed to the
delinquency of her (laughter, and maybe she
didn't. We don't know.
What we do know is that she did little or
nothing to give her daughter the ability to tell
right from wrong; to teach her the standards of
proper behavior, or give her the strength to re
sist temptation. To that extent, she is guilty.
E.A.
How Much?
We have nothing acainst the United States'
"favorite sport."
JBut it occurred to us
cost the taxpayers to fly President Eisenhower
from Atlanta to Washington and back, just so
he could throw out the first ball of the season in
the capital's ball park. E.A.
they met last weeK.
cities, two problems were
to these two major prob
needs and desires of its
countries is simrjlv the
"town meetings," and
! 1 1. 1. i. At- -
themselves and their
Guilty?
girl was sharing the bed
to wonder how much it
Dennis the
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FINGER OFF.''
Communications
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view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted
for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters,
printed in this column do
views or tne paper; in tact
Landlords and Taxes
To the Editor: Let's forget
about the dogs for a while,
and talk about bond elections,
coming up at the rate of one
a month.
Last month, $4,409,756.46
was voted for school build
ings, this month they want
$1,978,404.99 more, and see by
the Sunday paper there is an
other one coming up on a pro
posed budget. r
How much longer are the
tax payers going to let them
get by with this?
The ones that do not own
property get out and vote
while the property holders sit
at home and then wonder
why their taxes are going
higher and higher. They put
the bonds over and the tax
payers pick up the checks.
The only way out as I can
see is to either get out and
vote, or raise the rent after
each election.
How about It, landlords?
Let's get out and do something
about it.
How about the bridges over
Bear creek? When they get
the 10th street bridge in.
there will be four bridges
across Bear creek in five
blocks, and I understand
they want another one at
Fourth st.
And how about the Eighth
st. bridge? They bought the
land, put in the bridge to
take some of the traffic off
Main st., then ran the new
street right into Main st. less
than three blocks from where
it was before.
(Name on file)
Medford.
Editor's note: In the inter
ests of accuracy, it should be
pointed out that the school
building bonds approved last
month totaled $750,000, not
$4,409,756. The latter figure is
the total amount of the pro
posed operating budget for
School District 549C. This
budget exceeds the 6 per cent
limitation by $1,978,404. The
budget hearing mentioned by
our correspondent is the one
on the county budget, which
will require no election, and
no tax levy.
Senses Vs. Census
To the Editor: The census
laker came to our house yes
terday. It was a woman so I
had to hold my temper. Any
way here is the conversation
word for word or, you might
say, to the best of my recol
lection.
The first question the cen.
sus taker asked was: "How
many people live in this
house?" My wife said six.
I ' said we are not living,
we re just existing.
Then I asked the census
taker a question. I said, Are
you working for the state or
government?
I already knew but I
wanted to see what attitude
she would take In answering
It. Her answer was that she
worked for the Federal Gov
ernment under Civil Service
Then I asked her if she
thought the Government
would pay her.
She said yes, she thought
that they would. Then I said
to her maybe you trust them
but I don't. I said, I haven't
voted for -about nine years.
My wife shook her head at
me and I stopped long enough
for my wife to answer the
questions.
I sat there listening until
the census taker asked my
wife where my father was
born. I guess 1 should have
told her that Ex-President
Truman, Jessie James and my
old man all came from Miss
ouri. But instead I said are
you sure you're getting all
this Information for Ihe Uni
ted Slates Government or are
Menace
CONTCRV'.3bEV!5BeS'
MYFMGIZRI see?....
not necessarily represent the
tha contrary is often the case.
you getting it for Khrushchev.
Because Mr. K seems to be
more interested in our coun
try than he is in golf. Being
interested in other countries
seems to be his hobby.
Leo. J. Townsend
Route 1, Box 620,
Eagle Point, Ore.
Man's Best Friend
To the Editor: I have to sit
here and laugh, yet get darn
mad at some of the stories
they write about the best
friend a human has, The Dog.
I had one of the smartest
dogs that walked the streets
of Medford, Oregon. The only
time he ever had a leash on
him was when I was teaching
him not to jaywalk. The leash
was a belt, and when he
started to go bad, all I had
to do was let on I was going
to take off my belt, and he
was a good doggie again.
It is when a man has no One
to love him that he commits
suicide. So long as he has
friends he will live, because
to live is to love, be it but
the love of a Dog, it will keep
him in life. But let that go,
and he has no contact with
lifo, no reason to life.
It might hurt sdme peo
ple, what I am going to say
here. You have to be smarter
than the dog to teach him
so he will obey you. They
sure give the dog the, devil.
But when it gets dark he
comes home. Maybe if some
of these people that are doing
all this crying would teach
the children and cats to come
home at dark, instead of up
town throwing eggs, tomatoes
and water bombs at people,
they wouldn't have to cry
about the dog.
Why not put a tax on these
hollering cats at night, too?
Let's everybody that likes a
dog vote against the silly
leash law.
Leon Miller,
312 North Bartlett st.,
Medford
Please Consider It
To the Editor: I feel that
the modern ways are to be
made useful and appreciated,
but we humans have gone
overboard to extremes. The
demand for moderate con
veniences sometimes warps
our whole way of life, be
cause it changes the way of
the home.
Each and every one in the
home seems to live apart from
the others. In the past the
family was one, and very few
outsiders. Now when one
goes, he or she is forced to
take the whole neighborhood
to show off the new car, new
boat, or some other new de
vice. It is getting to be a
world of New Wonders, and
we are forgetting "why," the
real purpose of life.
Progress must be made, the
future depends on it. It must
nover be said of a great coun
try as America is, that be
cause of progress we are
above reproach. If we are to
leave our children anything
except worldly things, we
must start to build a founda
tion on moral righteousness.
I am asking the good people
who read these many letters,
please think what It would
mean to our young folks, and
also adults, to have an evan
gelistic crusade come to Med
ford. It can be done if each
would have his own minister,
who would be Interested In
sponsoring a crusade, their of
ficial Invitation should be
sent as soon as possible. Their
schedule is usually filled six
months In advance.
I know that thousands
would be healed, and souls i
saved, If we think of the fu-1
ture. Every nation on earth '
is thinking seriously of their
young children under 18 years
Matter of Fact
THE PEOPLE SPEAK
Huntington, W. Va.-The lo
cale is what the pollers call a
u DiocK (meaning a poorer
working class
block) of First
ave., in this
e 1 1 y's swing
Fifth ward
" Looking at the
S5 Montttol -U i
jv .-v.im.oi, otiaw
7, by little hous
es, you might
expect them
to contain
josei-u alsop identical, shab
by little people. But ring the
doorbells, and see what you
find.
Door one is opened by
grim harridan, with a face
ravaged by rage, suspicion,
pride and deprivation. On the
political front, she is cnieny
enraged by "this waste of all
these billions to go to the
moon, wnere tne Aimigmy
didn't never mean us to go.
In West Virginia's crucial
presidential primary, she sup
ports Sen. Hubert rl. Humpn-
rev of Minnesota, "although
he seems pretty no account."
She points out that Sen. jonn
F. Kennedy of Massachusetts
is a Catholic.
I wouldn't never want the
Pope in the White House," she
declared.
a a
flOOR two reveals an Idyll,
The gloriously pretty
young wife is briskly prepar
ing supper. The handsome hus
band, just home from work
and towel-girt after his bath,
is in gales of laughter over
some private game invented
by the two seraphic children
Both husband and wife are
intelligent and informed. The
wife chooses Humphrey, be
cause of his labor record,
which she knows in detail.
The husband prefers Kennedy,
because he is disturbed by
our foreign and defense poli
cies, and thinks Kennedy will
do better in these fields.
Door three discloses a roly-
poly old lady with a sweet,
distracted smile, who says
that "What this country needs
is a whole lot of love. If we
all had a lot of love in us,
and a lot of the Lord in us,
we'd do better and we'd live
better." These remarks are
interrupted by an unloving
yelp of fury from the back of
the house. The husband sus
pected "them blank blank
cencus takers have turned up
again."
"Don't you mind him," says
the wife calmly. "He's always
a mite nervous. Now what
was you askin' me? Oh yes,
about the primary. Well, if I
get to vote, I guess maybe I'll
vote for Kennedy, because he
looks like a nice young fellow.
THIS richness and variety of
human contact are the great
reward of poll-taking, as sore
feet are its chief penalty.. But
old. I believe that the evan
gelists of this earth are the
ones who are going to play
the big role in saving the
people of the world. I believe
the Rev. Oral Roberts Is a
man. of God, and , has the
Spirit of Christ in his very
soul to heal the sick and save
human souls. I know Brother
Roberts is just a man, and
can only heal if he be right
in the sight of God. I am
a shut-in, and cannot do any
thing except in this way.
Please consider it.
Leo A. Rifenbark,
1131 Pinecroft ave.,
Medford '
Predictions
To the Editor: The old be
lief that a late Easter meant
a late Spring may have some
logic.
The planet Mars governs
the solar year 1960, and the
general trends are that the
Springs are dry and cold,
with late frosts. The summers
are hot, sultry and oppressive.
Wells and rivers will be very
low in water. The Falls will
be quite dry, and it will be
clear, except wind and light
ening, in the summer. The
winters will be cold and
changeable. A year of many
spontaneous fires. There are
wars predicted and rumors of
wars. Snakes and grasshop
pers will be numerous. Grain
and vine crops will be good
where sufficient water is
available.
All told, It seems to be a
turbulent year, as Mars repre.
sents a fire symbol among the
early star gazers who named
the planets. 'Tis said the early
astrologers later became as
tronomers, and that the an
cient pyramids are a symbol
of the Zodiac built In a pillar
of stone as an altar to the
four elements, earth, fire,
water and air.
Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman St.,
Medford.
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'Other' De Gaulle Revealed as
Wartime Leader Visits in U.S.
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The people of the United
States get a chance this week
to see the "other" Charles
de Gaulle,
This is the
warm heart
ed man who
emerges from
behind the
screen of mys
ticism, s t u b-
b o r ness and
pride which
mark his
vnil isewsom
words and ac
tions as leader of France, and
shows himself one who de
lights in the human touch,
be it a ticker-tape parade or
a handshake between indi
viduals. This is one of the qualities
which enables him to main
tain his popularity and au
thority despite the iron disci
pline and economic sacrifices
he has demanded of 45 mil
lion individualistic French
men. Parades Await Him
This will be de Gaulle's
first visit to the United States
since 1945. Ticker tape pa
rades await him in New York
and San Francisco. The
warmth will be there for this
man who has become a legend
in his own lifetime, even
under the variety, a strong
and well-marked pattern is
eventually discernible. You
invariably find the pattern if
you just ring enough door
bells for enough days on end
i this reporter has now
done, here in Huntington; and
in Slab Fork; and in another
mining camp, Layland, which
is like an inhabited ulcer be
cause the mines have been
closed; and In the small town
of Chesapeake. The pattern
takes the form of strikingly
standardized responses from
people who appear to differ
widely as possible. The
four responses that follow
were closely echoed by many
scores of others.
'Kennedy's the better man,
more intelligent and more
honest. I've listened to him,
and I've been greatly im
pressed. I'm going for him.
Religion doesn t bother me,
the way it does my husband."
Mrs., L. C, Kearns, the wife
of a young industrial worker
in the 2400 block of 4tn Ave
nue, Huntington. Kearns back
ed Humphrey.
"We've talked about it a
lot. and we'd like to choose
Kennedy, but his religion is
going against him. He seems
real fine to us; we like what
he does and says, but we just
can't vote for a Catholic."
Mrs. Ethel Wood, a widow,
and her son, an industrial
worker, on Nancy Street in
Chesapeake.
"I'm for Humphrey, strictly
on his labor record. He's been
a true friend to the working
man." Willard Gill, secretary
treasurer of the United Mine
Workers local in Layland.
"I just don't know, because
I tell you, you've certainly
got something when you go
tryin' to read and find out
about people. I'm kind of fun
ny. I always just aim to pick
the best man, but I haven't
decided yet. No, it don't both
er me in the least that Ken
nedy's a Catholic. God said
every man could be his own
free moral agent." Mrs. Eva
Wilks, 2033 Fourth Avenue,
Huntington.
rpHERE, in those four quo-
taiions, you nave me pat
tern. Just about half of those
who have made up their minds
have chosen Kennedy, quite
often in spite of objections
to his Catholic faith.
Of the other half who have
chosen Humphrey, well over
50 per cent have made their
choice on grounds of pure re
ligious prejudice, and quite
often in spite of an admitted
preference for Kennedy as an
individual. One voter in ten
is undecided between the two
candidats, and of the unde
cided, only about half resem
ble Mrs. Wilks. The rest are
torn between liking for Ken-
ney and worry about his
Catholicism.
The pattern says, in fact.
that Kennedy would be in
like Flynn in West Virginia
if he were not a Catholic. The
pattern further- says that if
Humphrey wins, no matter
what he himself may say on
the stump, his victory will
be a triumph for prejudice.
This Is an unpleasant but un-
disputable fact. It raises a
whole scries of Questions.
which need careful analysis
in a further report.
Copyright 1960, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Urn
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Bob Rucker
Counsellor
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though its enthusiasm may not
match that which greeted him
in those first pent up months
after the war.
De Gaulle's visit to Wash
ington, and the hours he will
spend with President Eisen
hower, just about wraps up
the high level consultations
which have been preceding
the four-power summit meet
ing scheduled for May 16 in
Paris.
De Gaulle then will have
conferred separately with
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
of the Soviet Union, with
Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan of Britain and with
Eisenhower.
Each of the others may also
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
TESTING H.S.T.
Washington-This is a great
testing time for one of the
few very important persons
within the Democratic party
who is NOT
run ning for
President.
This VIP
is the sturdy
Harry S. Tru
man. Mr. Tru
man is resolv
ed to have a
strong voice
WllllAm 8.
wwta years Presi
dential nominee at the Demo
cratic convention in July.
He is unashamedly deter
mined to be a big wheel not
simply because, as a fromer
president, he is entitled to
that status. There are also
these motives: To see that the
convention picks a man Mr.
Truman believes can win; to
put the sheen back upon the
Truman reputation as a polit
ical tactician.
As time has gone on, many
have concluded that on the
big things, anyhow, Mr. Tru
man was a big President.
There has been, however, a
corresponding estimate that
he is not always the ablest
possible politician, perhaps be
cause his blow-up point is so
very low. .
a a
IN 1956 he troubled friends
and rejoiced enemies by
going in with too little too
late for Averell Harriman of
New York against the then in
evitable Presidential nominee,
Adlai E. Stevenson. Harriman
was run over as though by a
hundred loaded trucks, and
Mr. Truman with him.
It has been widely said
since that the old master has
lost his touch. Mr. Truman
recently observed that he is,
after all, getting on to 76
years old. It is thus permiss
ible to point out that he is
not likely to have too many
more national conventions at
which to try his hand.
So he deeply wants to do
a real job this time - because
of his lifelong love affair with
the Democratic party, his
enormous respect for the
Presidency, and his wish to
go out as a winner in the evening-time
of life.
HE IS still keeping close to
his chest the name of the
aspirant he will eventually
back. This aspirant is not in
evitably Sen. Stuart Syming
ton, though Symington's geo
graphy as a fellow Missour
ian will surely do him no
harm with Mr. T.
But two major candidates
are already pretty well re
jected - subject to those pos
sible turns in events that hap
pen in politics. These are
Stevenson himself, and Sen.
John F. Kennedy of Massa
chusetts. Mr. Truman's objec
tion to Kennedy probably lies
mainly in his hope that the
issue of the Senator's Catholic
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have held their separate con
ferences, so much so that it
almost might be said that the
summit meeting already has
been held.
As the most recent to have
seen Khrushchev, de Gaulle
may be expected to relay his
impressions to Eisenhower.
An important one, shared
last fall by Eisenhower, is that
Khrushchev plans no immedi
ate new pressure on Berlin.
Another topic between the
two will be the North Atlan
tic Treaty Alliance which Eis
enhower regards as a keystone
of U. S. foreign policy. De
Gaulle believes .that relaxing
worm tensions have reduced
the importance of NATO.
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religion can be kept out of the
campaign.
But the Truman objection
to Stevenson is complicated.
First Stevenson, in his initial
run in 1952, drew the hem
of his garments away from
the then highly unpopular oc
cupant of the White House,
Harry S. Truman. Mr. Truman
was not deeply pleased. More
importantly, however, it is not
so much Stevenson himself
as it is some ecstatic Steven
son backers who keep widen
ing the gulf between the two
leaders.
a a
THOUGH some Stevenson
ians tirelessly peddle a
contrary line, Mr. Truman is
not really against "intellect
ualism." But because he is a
competent politician, he nat
urally recoils from the pic
ture of Stevenson so assidu
ously cultivated by some who
are too madly for Adlai for
words. They present him 'as
far too fine to have any truck
with low and earthly "porfes
sional politicians." They seem
to assume that for a politician
to be a professional - that is,
a truly competent one - is
somehow wrong, even though
the Presidency is the most
demanding political job on
earth.
Endlessly they proclaim
Stevenson's snow-white ama
teurism and his alleged dis
taste for the organizational
politics which is usually the
means for winning elections.
(This, by the way, is a great
injustice to Stevenson. An
able and perfectly sensible
man he is by no means so
precious. He is not the first
to be injured by friends seek
ing their own image in him.)
And so they increasingly
convince Mr. iruman ana
other deplorably practical
types that Stevenson is much
too "cultured" to run the
hard, tough pitiless gantlet
of a national campaign.
(Copyright, 1960, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Timber Committee
Schedules Meeting
The timber committee of
Southern Oregon Conserva
tion and Tree Farm associa
tion will meet at 7 a.m.
Wednesday, April, 20, at the
Tower restaurant, Medford,
according to Dick Swan, Ross
Lumber company, chairman.
The meeting was originally
scheduled April 12, but was
rescheduled because of con
flicts with other lumber in
dustry meetings.
Representatives of the pub
lic forestry agencies, the
Jackson county court, and
members of the committee are
invited to attend to discuss
mutual problems of forest
land management, access road
development and forest fire
prevention and control, Swan
said.
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